Woman Charged In Alleged Forged Docs Scam In Attempt To Increase Property Size

In Westchester County, New York, The Journal News reports:

• A Connecticut woman is accused of forging the names of a justice and a lawyer to get more money for a piece of land that she and her boyfriend were trying to sell in Cortlandt. Barbara Pisano of Darien was charged with two counts of second-degree forgery for her role in the land scheme, according to the Westchester County District Attorney's Office. Her boyfriend, Robert Snyder, has not been charged. Prosecutors say Pisano copied the signatures of state Supreme Court Justice Mary H. Smith and attorney Daniel D. Chu onto phony legal documents last year. The forgeries gave her the right to add nearly one-tenth of an acre to her property [...], allowing her to market the parcel at 0.43 acre, rather than just over a third of an acre.

For more, see Legal secretary accused of forging real estate documents, judge's order (no longer available online).

See also: New York State Supreme Court Judge’s Signature Forged on a Decision.

Go here, go here, and go here for other posts on deed theft by forgery, swindle, etc. deed theft xenon